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1
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Admonish

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Warn or reprimand someone firmly/ to scold mildly/ to remind of duty

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Aesthetic

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concerned with beauty

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Affectation

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Pretentious behaviour in order to please someone

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Alleviate

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Make suffering less severe; placate, pacify, attenuate, assuage

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Analogous

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Comparable in certain respects

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Bolster

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Support or strength

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Chauvinistic

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Displaying aggressive patriotism, displaying excessive support for their own cause, group or sex

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Connoisseur

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An expert judge in matters of taste

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Dissemble

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Conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs

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Dogged

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Showing tenacity and grim persistence

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Dupe

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trick, a victim of deception

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Empirical

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based on observation rather than theory

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Engender

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cause or give rise to(a feeling, situation or behaviour)

Her latest book has engendered a lot of controversy

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Entitled

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Give someone a legal right to

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Pertinacious

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Holding firmly to an opinion or a cause of action

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Presumptuous

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Failing to observe limits of what is appropriate/brazen

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Probity

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Having strong moral principles, honesty and decency

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Proliferate

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increase rapidly in number, multiply

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Specious

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Superficially plausible but actually wrong

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Spurious

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Something that seems to be genuine, but is false

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Subjective

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Influenced by personal feelings, tasted and opinions

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Subvert

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Undermine the power and authority of the system

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Timorous

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Lack of confidence, easily frightened

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Tortuous

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Full of twists and turns excessively complex

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Tractable

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Easy to control or influence, easy to deal with

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Transient

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Ephemeral, lasting for a very short time

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Ubiquitous

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Present, appearing or found everywhere, omnipresent

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Underscore

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Emphasize

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Venal

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Corrupt

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Venerate

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Regard with great respect, reverence

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